For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Superficial goals lead to superficial results

Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

Most everything means nothing, except some things that mean everything.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.